Blue River

Name: Blue River
Author: Ethan Canin

by Ethan Canin

Love and obsession across generations in rural Iowa setting

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About the author

Ethan Canin

American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction examines the moral and emotional life of middle-class Americans with precise, quiet intelligence. America America is a political novel of Watergate-era ambition. He is a founding faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop fiction program.

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America AmericaHistorical epic following immigrant family from Europe to America
For Kings and PlanetsYoung men's friendship shaped by Princeton, ambition, and betrayal
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